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...shamelessly abusing its workers, from paying sub-minimum wages to denying access to bathrooms, and illegally firing hundreds who went on strike to demand they be treated like human beings. The conditions at Nike’s Kukdong factory in China were uncovered by the Workers’ Rights Consortium (WRC). When their report on Kukdong was released, universities belonging to the WRC threatened to cut their licenses with Nike if it didn’t make serious changes in its working conditions. Contrary to the prophecies of free trade fundamentalists, the university pressures did affect change: Instead of cutting...
According to the Herald, the state-planted tree farm was in receivership to a consortium of 12 banks, and was originally on the market for $650 million. The Herald also reported that Harvard was believed to be behind a thus-far failed bid for another massive New Zealand forest, raising the prospect that they could end up with a “super-estate...
...been reliable comic relief in movies, TV shows and, lately, commercials for the likes of Capital One and Dr Pepper. But now a coalition of activists headed by Jane Goodall, the renowned ethologist, wants to force the apes into retirement. Goodall is linking up with the Chimpanzee Collaboratory, a consortium of eight primate-welfare and -conservation groups, to launch a broad effort to persuade Hollywood to ban the use of actor-apes...
...says Goodall. "The time has come to move beyond the misuse of creatures who are vulnerable to our exploitation precisely because they are so like us." To be turned into actors, the Collaboratory claims, chimps are removed as infants from their mothers and physically and mentally abused. The consortium will release a report and testimony by researcher Sarah Baeckler, who says she worked undercover for 1,000 hours at a Malibu, Calif., facility that trains chimps for Hollywood. Trainers, she says, repeatedly kicked, punched and beat chimps with hammers to make them obedient. Nonsense, says Sid Yost, owner of Amazing...
...virus among birds and mosquitoes and makes for large outbreaks,” said Paul R. Epstein, associate director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School. Epstein works with a team of researchers on the West Nile virus under the sponsorship of the Consortium for Conservation Medicine...